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withdraught Obs. exc. arch. Forms: see with prep. and draught n.; also 5 wedraught, 6 wyddra(u)ght, -drought, weydraught, widdrawte, 6–7 (8–9 arch.) wydraught, 7 widraught. [f. with- + draught n., after withdraw.] 1. Withdrawal.
1340Ayenb. 240 Þe castel of þe wombe..ne may him hyealde aye þane gost þanne he is asterued be uestinges and be wyþdraȝþes. 1437Rolls of Parlt. IV. 508/2 The..hurtes..doone..to you..in withdraught of your due Custumes. 1442Ibid. V. 64/2 Withoute fraude, embeselyng or withdraught therof in eny wise. c1475Partenay 5927 Thys knight saw hir come, with-draught wold not gette. 1623T. Adams Peace-offering (1624) 42 May not a withdraught of all Gods fauours..be..foreseen? b. spec. Withdrawal from an action in court (= retraxit); a fine or fee imposed for this. Cf. withdraw n., quot. 1444.
[1402,1455: see Essex Rev. (1907) XVI. 128, 133.] 1600Maldon (Essex) Docts. Bundle 162 lf. 3 (MS.) Withdraughts. Item, they are charged with xxxiiii s. by them receyved for lycenses of concord in accions personalls. 1635Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds Bundle 80 No. 2 (MS.) Allowance to the said seriants for collectinge of withdrafts behind. †2. A place of retirement or retreat; a retreat; a private chamber, retiring-room; a closet or recess.
1480Caxton Myrr. iii. xxi. 175 He that hath none other wythdraughte ne other dwellyng place. 1481Botoner Tulle on Old Age (Caxton) b vj, [He] fled by the withdraught into the toure of the same castelle. 1509Will Earl of Oxford (Prerog. Crt. Cant.), ij peces of Rede Worstede vsed to be in the Wydraught of my Chamber. 1530Palsgr. 288/2 Wydraught, basse chambre; ortraict; retraict. 3. A privy; a sewer: = draught n. 45, 46. Survives locally in leases.
1493–4Leicester Borough Rec. (1901) II. 344 For borde & tymbre for the wedraught. a1513Fabyan Chron. vi. cciv. (1811) 215 Whan the Kynge was at the withdraught to purge nature. c1516in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 245 A Hows for the comyn wyddrowght of the said College. 1559Boke Presidentes 26 The sayde mesuage..with thappurtenances with the pauementes, and wydraughtes of the same. 1671in Birch Hist. Charters (1884) 247 That no man shall make or continue any widraughts, seat or seats, for houses of easement. 1702J. K. New Eng. Dict., A Wy-draught, a Water-course, or Water-passage. 1846(25 Aug.) Lease (Surrey), Privies, sinks, sewers, wydraughts, drains and houses of office. 1896Lease, Fences, pavements, gutters, pipes, drains, wydraughts. |